Hellenomania

Author : Katherine Harloe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351999141
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hellenomania written by Katherine Harloe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenomania, the second volume in the MANIA series, presents a wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary exploration of the modern reception of ancient Greek material culture in cultural practices ranging from literature to architecture, stage and costume design, painting, sculpture, cinema, and the performing arts. It examines both canonical and less familiar responses to both real and imagined Greek antiquities from the seventeenth century to the present, across various national contexts. Encompassing examples from Inigo Jones to the contemporary art exhibition documenta 14, and from Thessaloniki and Delphi to Nashville, the contributions examine attempted reconstructions of an ‘authentic’ ancient Greece alongside imaginative and utopian efforts to revive the Greek spirit using modern technologies, new media, and experimental practices of the body. Also explored are the political resonances of Hellenomaniac fascinations, and tensions within them between the ideal and the real, the past, present, and future. Part I examines the sources and derivations of Hellenomania from the Baroque and pre-Romantic periods to the early twentieth century. While covering more canonical material than the following sections, it also casts spotlights on less familiar figures and sets the scene for the illustrations of successive waves of Hellenomania explored in subsequent chapters. Part II focuses on responses, uses, and appropriations of ancient Greek material culture in the built environment—mostly architecture—but also extends to painting and even gymnastics; it examines in particular how a certain idealisation of ancient Greek architecture affected its modern applications. Part III explores challenges to the idealisation of ancient Greece, through the transformative power of colour, movement, and of reliving the past in the present human body, especially female. Part IV looks at how the fascination with the material culture of ancient Greece can move beyond the obsession with Greece and Greekness.

Author : Martin Bernal
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822327172
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Athena Writes Back written by Martin Bernal and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThis book is Bernal’s response to criticisms to his 1987 book, BLACK ATHENA, which argued for an Afro-Asiatic origin for Greek civilization./div

Author : Martin Bernal
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813537542
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Athena written by Martin Bernal and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Letter correspondences"--P. [731]-739.

Author : Lutfi Sunar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131713995X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eurocentrism at the Margins written by Lutfi Sunar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eurocentrism remains a prevailing feature of Western-dominated social scientific perspectives, tending to ignore alternative views originating outside the West and thus maintaining a form of scholarly hegemony. As such, there is an urgent need to reconsider Eurocentrism in social science, to ask whether it constitutes an obstacle to understanding social problems and whether it is possible to go beyond Eurocentrism in the construction of reliable, more universal knowledge. At the same time, certain questions persist, particularly with regard to the extent to which recent revisionist challenges have really contributed to the surmounting of Eurocentric domination, and whether the constant repetition of the concept serves to reinforce it. This book engages with the central problems of Eurocentrism in the social sciences, bringing together the work of scholars from around the world to offer a critique of this perspective from both European and non-European positions, thus shedding light on the binaries that often come into being in debates in this field. Thematically organised and addressing a range of questions, including Eurocentrism in historical studies, in the understanding of religion and civilisation and in the study of international relations, as well as in the institutionalisation and professionalisation of research and discourses on modernisation in the Middle East, Eurocentrism at the Margins will appeal to scholars with interests in knowledge production and circulation, and Eurocentrism and post-colonialism in the social sciences.

Author : Anindita Niyogi Balslev
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780788503085
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross-cultural Conversation written by Anindita Niyogi Balslev and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven essays in this collection address various aspects of cross-cultural studies. Contributors were visiting scholars at the Center for Cultural Research at Aarhus University in Denmark. The clarity provided by their reflections concerning both the rewards and limitations of cross-cultural studies will be increasingly important now that we've entered the pluralistic world of the new millennium.

Author : John Pinsent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liverpool Classical Monthly written by John Pinsent and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Jean Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195341597
Total Pages : 1073 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary written by Robert Jean Campbell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1073 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary is widely recognized as the definitive dictionary of psychiatry--up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative. Distinguished by its clarity and scholarship, it is unique among dictionaries in providing nearly encyclopedic discussions of many of the most important entries. The Ninth Edition is nearly double the size of the previous edition and has been updated, revised, and vastly expanded to cover the explosion of new words and terms in psychiatry (including terms reflective of the debate now informing the development of the DSM-V ), neuroscience, cognitive and clinical psychology, and neurodegenerative diseases as well as relevant terms and concepts from a wide range of related fields, including genetics, imaging, general medicine, forensic psychiatry, and sociology. It also covers the full range of treatments, including psychopharmacologic agents, behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, interpersonal therapy, and other brief therapies. The entries are clearly written, so that they can be understood by non-psychiatrists (including general readers), and they feature cross-references, so that readers can easily locate all the relevant information on a topic. Campbell's is written for the working library of a broad and diverse readership of specialists and non-specialists that includes psychiatrists, residents, neurologists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, counselors, lawyers, claims reviewers, and lay readers with an interest in mental health issues.

Author : Filippo Carlà-Uhink
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474297854
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representations of Classical Greece in Theme Parks written by Filippo Carlà-Uhink and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theme park studies is a growing field in social and cultural studies. Nonetheless, until now little attention has been dedicated to the choice of the themes represented in the parks and the strategies of their representation. This is particularly interesting when the theme is a historical one, for example ancient Greece. Which elements of classical Greece find their way into a theme park and how are they chosen and represented? What is the “entertainment” element in ancient Greek history, culture and myth, which allows its presence in commercial structures aiming to people's fun? How does the representation of Greece change against different cultural backgrounds, e.g. in different European countries, in the USA, in China? This book frames a discussion of these representations within the current debates about immersive spaces, uses of history and postmodern aesthetics, and analyses how ancient Greece has been represented and made “enjoyable” in seven different theme parks across the world, providing an original and ground-breaking contribution to theme park studies and classical reception.

Author : Laurel Dykstra
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621891186
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberating Biblical Study written by Laurel Dykstra and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberating Biblical Study is a unique collaboration of pioneering biblical scholars, social-change activists, and movement-based artists. Well known and unknown, veterans and newcomers, these diverse practitioners of justice engage in a lively and critical conversation at the intersection of seminary, sanctuary, and street. The book is divided into eight sections; in each, a scholar, activist, and artist explore the justice issues related to a biblical text or idea, such as exodus, creation, jubilee, and sanctuary. Beyond the emerging themes (e.g., empire, resistance movements, identity, race, gender, and economics), the book raises essential questions at another level: What is the role of art in social-change movements? How can scholars be accountable beyond the academy, and activists encouraged to study? How are resistance movements nurtured and sustained? This volume is an accessible invitation to action that will appeal to all who love and strive for justice--whatever their discipline, and whatever their familiarity with the Bible, scholarship, art, and activist communities.

Author : Martin Priestman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317020987
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin written by Martin Priestman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While historians of science have focused significant attention on Erasmus Darwin’s scientific ideas and milieu, relatively little attention has been paid to Darwin as a literary writer. In The Poetry of Erasmus Darwin: Enlightened Spaces, Romantic Times, Martin Priestman situates Darwin’s three major poems - The Loves of the Plants (1789), The Economy of Vegetation (1791) and The Temple of Nature (1803) - and Darwin himself within a large, polymathic late-Enlightenment network of other scientists, writers, thinkers and social movers and shakers. Interpreting Darwin’s poetry in terms of Darwin’s broader sense of the poetic text as a material space, he posits a significant shift from the Enlightenment’s emphases on conceptual spaces to the Romantic period’s emphases on historical time. He shows how Darwin’s poetry illuminates his stance toward all the major physical sciences and his well-formulated theories of evolution and materially based psychology. Priestman’s study also offers the first substantial accounts of Darwin’s mythological theories and their links to Enlightenment Rosicrucianism and Freemansonry, and of the reading of history that emerges from the fragment-poem The Progress of Society, a first-ever printed edition of which is included in an appendix. Ultimately, Priestman’s book offers readers a sustained account of Darwin’s polymathic Enlightenment worldview and cognate poetics in a period when texts are too often judged by their adherence to a retrospectively constructed ’Romanticism’.